The Independent Crossword August 16 2025 Answers

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Below are all 117 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 16 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Unfairly treats Tottenham, switching kick-offs in Premier League51 AcrossReveal answer → Young salmon41 AcrossReveal answer → Vex playfully53 AcrossReveal answer → Elland Road revamped after Environment Agency’s leaked letter84 AcrossReveal answer → Type of bronze87 AcrossReveal answer → Back of the neck48 AcrossReveal answer → Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary109 AcrossReveal answer → Easy progress (Informal)129 AcrossReveal answer → Strip610 AcrossReveal answer → 1991 film with Rik Mayall in the title role1210 AcrossReveal answer → Former court specialist running Merseyside district710 AcrossReveal answer → French side secures title in small home venue711 AcrossReveal answer → Premier League champions in 19 & 24?412 AcrossReveal answer → Inspiration found by Brentford initially, before inclement weather1013 AcrossReveal answer → Over the moon613 AcrossReveal answer → The county town of County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland915 AcrossReveal answer → Second to bid and not backing spades or clubs515 AcrossReveal answer → Twitcher's activity1215 AcrossReveal answer → See 501216 AcrossReveal answer → Continue to provide for an idiot817 AcrossReveal answer → Rodolphe ___, Swiss chocolate manufacturer who invented the conching machine and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate517 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional enemies of the mods in British youth culture718 AcrossReveal answer → Neat419 AcrossReveal answer → Made use of820 AcrossReveal answer → Steam train maybe beating metro back to Snyder, NY820 AcrossReveal answer → 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf centring on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye1520 AcrossReveal answer → Thrust521 AcrossReveal answer → The main championship game of American football, held annually in January922 AcrossReveal answer → Elderly422 AcrossReveal answer → Virginia sick, stuck in holiday home523 AcrossReveal answer → The most sensuous word in the English language, according to Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective525 AcrossReveal answer → Case of ales going round cast disturbs writers of farce1025 AcrossReveal answer → Alias of Larry Dimmick in the film Reservoir Dogs, played by Harvey Keitel727 AcrossReveal answer → Sunderland exhausted admits assistant, danger sign missed427 AcrossReveal answer → 2012 Oliver Stone film based on the novel of the same name by Don Winslow729 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for caustic soda1530 AcrossReveal answer → Pep a revolutionary providing continental fare730 AcrossReveal answer → Trendy seaside resort to the east of Britain731 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit that woman fed to hawks832 AcrossReveal answer → Aggressive opponent showing hunger at the Bridge?533 AcrossReveal answer → A garden tool or machine used on lawns to improve soil drainage and encourage worms, microfauna and microflora734 AcrossReveal answer → A bird of the family Strigidae735 AcrossReveal answer → Character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid who was a brother-in-arms of Hector736 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar-winning musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp1537 AcrossReveal answer → Commercial music streaming service launched in Sweden in October 2008738 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Monday is the first Monday of the year739 AcrossReveal answer → Leather finished with a fine velvet-like nap541 AcrossReveal answer → The ___, comic strip, about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside heads, that first appeared in The Beezer in 1962942 AcrossReveal answer → Former Rugby League competition last won by Leigh Centurions in 20131544 AcrossReveal answer → Capital of the Finistère department of Brittany748 AcrossReveal answer → Manager of the Beatles from 1962 to 19671250 AcrossReveal answer → ___ of Asha, single by Cornershop that reached number one in the UK chart in 1998751 AcrossReveal answer → Character played by Bernard Youens in Coronation Street from 1964 to 1984952 AcrossReveal answer → 1981 film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan1254 AcrossReveal answer → 1850 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, that is a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam1055 AcrossReveal answer →

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Admits to office small error hemming dress81 DownReveal answer → Chubby51 DownReveal answer → Greek philosopher who held that the highest good is pleasure81 DownReveal answer → Turn over depleted Palace, stuffing faceless reserves52 DownReveal answer → Search unsystematically72 DownReveal answer → Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid42 DownReveal answer → Land cultivation73 DownReveal answer → Underground network station announced43 DownReveal answer → Michael Jackson single that topped the US and UK charts simultaneously in 1983103 DownReveal answer → 1968 film in which Tony Curtis starred as Albert DeSalvo184 DownReveal answer → Make void54 DownReveal answer → Stretch75 DownReveal answer → Vault that is holding Wolves' no.4's record collection75 DownReveal answer → Bird to which the adjective psittacine relates65 DownReveal answer → Astonish46 DownReveal answer → Selection of tweed at establishment occasions56 DownReveal answer → A marine percoid fish of the family Labridae66 DownReveal answer → See 3107 DownReveal answer → Rising register Coot slipped into test of public speaking97 DownReveal answer → 'Lovely' doctor disreputable removing top68 DownReveal answer → Constantin ___, Romanian artist and patriarch of modern sculpture88 DownReveal answer → Waterproof article fine for Gunners to wear69 DownReveal answer → Andrew ___, name Eric Morecambe gave to André Previn during his appearance on The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1971711 DownReveal answer → First711 DownReveal answer → Speak badly of712 DownReveal answer → Fabian ___, former Leeds United, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Everton footballer who won 20 England caps512 DownReveal answer → Nickname of Arthur Honegger's Symphony No. 5713 DownReveal answer → Character who marries Estella in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens1414 DownReveal answer → Addict's plan that's cunning, top to bottom414 DownReveal answer → Enduring714 DownReveal answer → Appalling if English person starts a fight916 DownReveal answer → Senior member516 DownReveal answer → Stylishly fashionable417 DownReveal answer → Antipodean PM taking motorhome over to the south of Australia418 DownReveal answer → Avarice518 DownReveal answer → Number 1? He's picked Pope!819 DownReveal answer → Republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa whose capital is Praia919 DownReveal answer → New 'first class' medic joining Spain shows inexperience721 DownReveal answer → A note known as a sixty-fourth note in North America1821 DownReveal answer → Angrily rate start of Man United's season622 DownReveal answer → The ___ Brothers were the musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield923 DownReveal answer → Give funny order to "be calm and get wine"624 DownReveal answer → Kingdom in southern Africa whose capital is Maseru724 DownReveal answer → One running Forest's midfield wheels round526 DownReveal answer → American rock band whose best known songs is (Don't Fear) The Reaper1426 DownReveal answer → Music festival held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the Catskills in August 1969928 DownReveal answer → At one bathing in river that backs onto house528 DownReveal answer → 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in the title role529 DownReveal answer → Diverse group of leaders in Burnley's team get lads playing429 DownReveal answer → A bass tuba that coils over the shoulder of a band musician731 DownReveal answer → Editor of Private Eye who is also a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You932 DownReveal answer → In philately, a design for a stamp submitted to the postal authorities for consideration but not used533 DownReveal answer → Item in which John Worthing was famously found in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest739 DownReveal answer → Another name for a hookah840 DownReveal answer → Sport based on an activity that was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture741 DownReveal answer → South American country whose capital is Paramaribo843 DownReveal answer → 1953 Western, starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page, based on the short story The Gift of Cochise by Louis L'Amour545 DownReveal answer → Large town in Greater London that is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Redbridge646 DownReveal answer → Nicola ___, Italian sculptor noted for his pulpit in the baptistry of Pisa Cathedral647 DownReveal answer → A crustacean of the order that includes woodlice649 DownReveal answer → 1996 film starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas, loosely based on a short story by James Salter451 DownReveal answer → Chocolate bar that originated in Sweden and Norway in 1953453 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 16, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.